Scanning old photo negatives

[rosyherb]

I've got 20 yrs worth of holiday photo negatives that i want to store on CD, PC etc. Any one have any suggestion or recommendations as how to do it. I thought photo shops do it but what's the quality and cost like, or would i be better getting a scanner, by the way does the scanner produce a copy of the negative or produce a picture. Daft question but an IT guy at work said it copied the negative!
Cheers me dears

[Lord Unstone]

I have just bought a transparency/neg scanner from iwantoneofthose dot com. about ninety quid. seems ok.

[Ethel]

I have a HP all in one printer, copier, scanner and it scans my photos very well - it makes a 'digital photo' from a photo and the prints I have made from the digital photo have been as good as the originals.

[rosyherb]

We've got a Lexmark scanner/printer/copier, but it won't take negatives. I've used it when the originals have been of good quality, but all the orignal photos have moved house 10 times been in the loft etc so not good enough to scan and store so I think i'll need to use the negatives. Lord Unstone does it pick scratches etc or can I get my photolab to deal with that?
Thanks both for all your help.

[naflharrison]

canon 4400f scanner takes wide size negatives but not the really old narow ones, does a great job to and not expensive

[rccatnap]

I have an EPSON Perfection 3170 Photo scanner that handles most negatives. The software provided with it will handle whatever you want to do with the scan. Take a colour negative and keep it as such or change it to a positive picture. You can then use your photo software e.g. Corel Photo-Paint or Adobe Photo-Shop to remove scratches etc. if required or even change the colour balance and then copy to a CD or DVD. The latter would be preferable, as you can get so many on one disc.
Photographic shops will do the job for you, but it would be prohibitively expensive if you've got a few hundred of them.

[shylock73]

I have an Canon Pixma MP170 and I`ve scanned dozens of photo`s and transferred them to the PC via `Picasa2` which you can download free. It`s simplicity in itself.

[shylock73]

I forgot to mention you have to use M.P. Navigator 2.0 to scan, which you most probably already have.

[rosyherb]

thanks guys.